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Ask HN: How many of you are open to Piracy again?

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Re: Ask HN: How many of you are open to Piracy again?

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Post by aeneasmackenzie »

speeder wrote: post #403

Just one movie shows how the situation is nuts: Baahubali is a very long movie that was split into two parts. It is not a normal "movie 1 + sequel", it is basically a 5 hour long movie split in two for easier production. Netflix originally had both parts, it is where I watched it. I went to show the movie to my wife and found out now only second half is there. The first half is on HBO, that doesn't have second half.…

I bought one of the parts on amazon and got a version that had either desynced audio or subtitles. It seemed like a speed mismatch as it got worse as the movie went on. I don't speak Tamil, but I can still tell who should be speaking and it became very hard to follow. There was no way to adjust the sync or track speed like in mpv.

Message received, I won't buy again.

Re: Ask HN: How many of you are open to Piracy again?

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Post by Mezzie »

wonderwonder wrote: post #504
Mezzie wrote: post #499

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm not sure what you mean by 'sexual confusion' unless you mean the gay version of me trying desperately to make myself like men? Or something like my sister who thought she was bi for a while because I was the only decent role model she had and I was gay. The reason I mention how young I was is because having romance shoved in my face constantly made me aware by the time I was a kindergartner that something was 'wr…

I think your personal experience actually captures my concern: "Or something like my sister who thought she was bi for a while because I was the only decent role model she had and I was gay" Kids are very malleable at a young age and they build themselves based on the rolemodels and influences they are exposed to. I take this into consideration when deciding what they can watch. As to your question on do I apply the…

That's a very fair approach.

One thing I will also note is - and I do mean this in a gentle way - that placing pressure on your child to have children of his own might not just backfire if he's gay. Half of my family is conservative (the other half is progressive) and very Catholic, and my cousin who is infertile has had a terrible time of it. Or if your straight son's wife is infertile. Or if your child ends up disabled and unable to commit to parenting. That may be something you want to work on in the coming decades, partially because if you are a part of conservative leaning communities (like if you're religious) you need to be there for your child if they can't meet those expectations for whatever reason.

Re: Ask HN: How many of you are open to Piracy again?

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Post by _8j50 »

Piracy takes too much work. I have limited time outside of work,study and self-care stuff, for that netflix and prime are more than adequate.

LOTR and Peripheral on prime were top-notch, just watched cowboy bebop (sad they are not making more) on netflix. I simply am never in a situation where I can't find watchable content. There is nothing I can pirate where the quality improvement is worth finding a torrent/magnet, waiting for it to download (and hope it has subs, I like subs) transfer it to TV or connect my laptop or run a plesk server or something like that.

Re: Ask HN: How many of you are open to Piracy again?

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Post by nostromo123 »

Like many others here, I never stopped. It's not about money, but availability and overall experience.

An experience that has stuck in my mind: as a poor Eastern European who pirated everything as a student, after emigrating to the West, earning "western money" and getting a visa card and all that, I thought: "now I'll buy legally, cool, I'll be an upstanding citizen".

However, when I wanted to buy from itunes or whatever it was (10+ years ago), I was told "The content is not available in your location". Um, yes, it is available, for free, even: if you don't want my money, your loss!

Since then, I have had enough similar experiences that my default is the seven seas.

I have bought games on steam and gog, that was ok. Ebooks, however, are, even in 2023, mostly a drm-filled usability nightmare.

Re: Ask HN: How many of you are open to Piracy again?

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Post by Alifatisk »

I am open to piracy when there is like 10 different streaming services offering exclusive movies. Sure, I can afford having one or two subscriptions but I can't have 10 different subscriptions.

Piracy have also become incredibly easy for everyone, popcorn time, fmovies & webtorrent have made it extremely user friendly, almost to the point that the user is unaware of the fact that they are pirating a movie.

I do have one rule though, if there is a book or movie etc I REALLY enjoy, then I buy it just to support the creator.

Re: Ask HN: How many of you are open to Piracy again?

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Post by kaba0 »

zug_zug wrote: post #141

I disagree that we're at peak monetization (see what the price of a premium cable package used to be) Since you mention Spotify I'm super happy with it. It's basically everything I ever wanted consistently. Can recommend new music better than any person I know, and I can feed it any song that I and somebody else like as a radio station and get a pretty decent list of songs we both don't mind. Granted I don't listen t…

Not too relevant to the topic, but I can’t be the only person who seems to be inside a “music bubble”, and constantly get recommended the same deal of songs? Though I also have “liked music” be pretty buggy, it used to be the case that “download offline” added the songs to my liked list as well, so I got plenty of songs I didn’t like that much added that I only recently managed to clear out.. maybe I should wipe clean my profile?

Re: Ask HN: How many of you are open to Piracy again?

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Post by potta_coffee »

dns_snek wrote: post #206

Music is a non-issue with services competing on features rather than exclusive content. I pirate games that cost more than ~$20 and don't provide a demo. If I enjoy the game then I'll usually buy it after an hour or two, especially indie games. I'm done with movie/TV streaming services. Their business model and user experience is garbage while piracy provides a significantly better ease of use, overall UX and content…

I've done this, pirate a game just to find out if it's any good. I don't do full playthroughs. If the game is good, I'll buy it. 99% of the time it just gets deleted after an hour.
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